Great use of military tech for conservation purposes. This is the literal embodiment of Nobodyisflyingtheplane.

Anyone as concerned with privacy as the staff is at Nobodyisflyingtheplane is obviously wary of the potential for misuse of unmanned drones, but we love to hear when privacy invading police state tech can be used for the betterment of all.

Why not take military style use further and develop remote pilot operation bases in parts of the world where there is a sufficient supply of skilled pilots. Then crowdsource the surveillance feeds to interested internet users who could review footage in their free time. How about forming a non profit to raise funds for remote aerial conservation efforts by developing a remote drone flight school and selling classes to retired Baby Boomers on Groupwise just as real flight schools do.

Not a good article at all. Very little info provided to readers. But there are not that many articles about the economics behind the shift to streaming in the music industry, so we take what we can get.
The problem with this article is that it says there may or may not he a problem with the economics behind streaming, but it only cites the details of one obscure artist in a genre that most likely doesnt make much money to begin with.

Where is a look at how much popular artists make, emerging artists, washed up has beens with popular catalogs? Give us some way to compare the streaming icome to income from other sources.

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The thing I take from this article is not that publicly available research compromises our privacy, its that there will always be new and unexpected ways our privacy becomes vulnerable. Finding a fix to this one issue is not what’s needed. We need to address privacy on a larger scale and develop standard guidelines for how data is handled and secured. NYTimes: Web Hunt for DNA Sequences Leaves Privacy Compromised http://nyti.ms/W9f6im

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A decent article about gun violence, but a better article for what it says about how we’re all in this together. We can’t really see or solve our problems if all we see is different tribes everywhere we look. We have to alleviate the problems of those below us on the ladder in order to make things better for ourselves.

If you ignore America’s poor, you can make all kinds of problems disappear from view. Not counting the poor and minorities, the country does not have an obesity epidemic. Not counting the poor and minorities, the United States has perfectly adequate schools. Not counting the poor and minorities, America would have a higher average income.

Likewise, not counting hurricanes, America would not have so many natural disasters. Not counting divorces, America would have more intact families. Not counting wars, America would have a smaller public debt. But what’s the point of this exercise? The people who make up America count as Americans, and their problems count as America’s problems. Their problems do not occur in isolation, but are manifestations of failures to which all Americans contributed together.

Nobodyisflyingtheplane when everybody thinks someone else is getting all those juicy government checks, living the high life, sticking it to the man, making suckers out of us working stiffs.

Its not somebody else. Its the middle class. As it most likely should be.

With the caveat that anyone can use stats to show the picture they want to, here is the picture of the middle class benefiting from the money the government takes from their checks.

More than 90% of the benefits go toward working families, the disabled and the elderly. And more than half of all entitlement spending helps middle class Americans.

In 2010, those age 65 and older collected 53% of the dollars, while the non-elderly disabled received 20%, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-leaning group. And folks in working families collected 18%.

As for income levels, those in the middle — earning between $30,000 and $120,000 — received 58% of all entitlement dollars in 2010.

Working families are the main recipients of the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit, which are designed to encourage employment.

About half of food stamp and Medicaid spending also go to individuals in working families

When wage growth keeps up with cost of living increases, inflation (the magical invisible inflation we all see everyday, but economists and the government don’t) and corporate profit growth not as many people will need help from the government. Until then its nice to know that its there if you need it.

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Domestic manufacturing and technical innovation are much more closely linked than many thought they were.

experts say that in industries that produce complex, high-technology products — things like bioengineered tissues, not light bulbs — companies that keep their research and manufacturing employees close together might be more innovative than businesses that develop a schematic and send it overseas for low-wage workers to make. Moreover, clusters of manufacturers, where workers and ideas can naturally flow between companies, might prove more productive and innovative than the same businesses if they were spread across the country.

The idea is to knit together manufacturing, design, prototyping and production

Economists said that while the link between making and innovating within individual businesses was not yet well established, the link between making and innovating between different companies was.

It is what they call a “spillover” effect: manufacturing companies near one another create a kind of commons. Workers exchange ideas over drinks and at baseball games. They switch jobs, taking their knowledge with them. They draw other companies, who compete to offer them goods and services. It all adds up to a more productive, more innovative economy.

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The new hypothesis thinking is that humans are smart because our distant ancestors were athletic and developed high endurance. This led to greater brain development, better hunting, better eating, more procreating, and so on in an upward evolutionary spiral.

Being in motion made them smarter, and being smarter now allowed them to move more efficiently.

And out of all of this came, eventually, an ability to understand higher math and invent iPads. But that was some time later.

there is a deep evolutionary basis for the relationship between a healthy body and a healthy mind,